Photo via LG What better use for a decommissioned factory that once made energy-sucking plasma display screens than making energy-generating solar photovoltaic panels. Talk about an awesome 180. LG is investing $168 million in retooling the plant, and work will start next month. Read on for more info on exactly what to expect from the factory. ...

photo: Drax Group Drax Group, the owner of the eponymous 4,000 MW coal-eating behemoth power plant in North Yorkshire, England has announced that it will be partnering with Siemens to do something other than spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Wait, that was a bit harsh... Drax Group and Siemens say that they will be building three 300 MW biomass power plants in the UK over the next couple of years. The plants will be powered by energy crops and agricultural waste from the UK, and are expected to supply about 15% of the UK’s renewable electricity by the time the all come online. That’s still a wa...

It is tough times all around right now, and people are loath to spend money on anything. However the Huffington Post has a roundup of fall activities that are fun for a family to do, cheap or free, and you come home with something to eat. They include Neighbourhood Delicacies, where they pick up TreeHugger Bonnie's post on rooting around the local lawns and parks for edible treats; Mushroom Hunting, but you better know what you are doing; Urban foraging for "public fruit", and Apple picking at local orchards. Tasty and free at the

Photo via Mooganic, and Causewired You're here on TreeHugger, so you likely feel a connection between being online and being active in social change. That connection - using the internet as a means of doing good for the world - is quickly spreading thanks to the rise of social networking, free-to-use platforms for websites, and a broadening number of devices through which we can connect to the web. Tom Watson has dubbed this as being "Causewired." In his new book by that title, Watson explores how this connection ...

We have gone on about how we need a green new deal. FDR biographer Conrad Black writes from his Florida retreat about the scale of the FDR new deal; imagine if this much energy and effort was directed at insulating our buildings and rebuilding our transportation and energy systems. "The government hired about 60 per cent of the unemployed in public works and conservation projects that planted a billion trees, saved the whooping crane, modernized ...